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Kannon-Goddess of Mercy (Nagoya, Japan

statues of Kannon and Buddha, Osu Kannon, Nagoya, Japan, Buddhist temple

Osu Kannon temple, Nagoya, Japan

Hundreds of statues of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy, a bodhisattva in the Buddhist tradition, surround various representations of Buddha himself in a smaller temple on the grounds of Osu Kannon.